It’s been rumored for over a year that Hailee Steinfeld had been signed to the cast of the upcoming Disney+ series Hawkeye, in an undisclosed role. Steinfeld initially denied the report, but it resurfaced again last summer, this time claiming that Steinfeld would play the part of a popular character from Marvel Comics: Clint Barton’s sidekick/apprentice Kate Bishop.
While Steinfeld has yet to officially confirm the role, she reignited the rumors on the evening of November 30th with a post on Instagram. While it’s ostensibly just a post in anticipation of Steinfeld’s upcoming 24th birthday on December 11th, the picture she chose for it resembles Kate Bishop, complete with a hairband that matches Kate’s traditional costume color of eggplant purple. Also, it turns out Steinfeld is a Sagittarius, so that’s kinda funny.
So far, all Marvel Studios has officially announced about the Hawkeye TV show is that Jeremy Renner is in it, and it will explore some of what he was doing in the five years between Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame. Some sources have also claimed that the show will involve Clint taking on an apprentice of sorts, which immediately spurred a lot of fan speculation about the imminent MCU debut of Kate Bishop.
In the comics, Kate is Clint’s sidekick the same way that Penny was Inspector Gadget’s sidekick. She’s nowhere near as experienced as Clint, but has a lot more common sense and is much less prone to trouble. Created in 2005 in Young Avengers #1, by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung, Kate spent much of her life in Manhattan as a high-society rich kid. After she was mugged in Central Park, she turned to training to help deal with the trauma, and ended up developing a wide assortment of combat skills.
Later, when a bunch of newbie superheroes accidentally interrupted a wedding, Kate traded in her bridesmaid’s dress for a superhero uniform. Her initial identity, in keeping with the other Young Avengers, was a blend of costume elements from the Avengers Hawkeye and Mockingbird. Since both of them were dead at the time (comics!) and Kate had taken a lot of archery courses, she ended up taking up Hawkeye’s name and bow with Captain America’s blessing. When Clint came back shortly afterward (comics!), he ended up getting along famously with Kate and was content to share the name with her. Their dynamic was further established in Matt Fraction and David Aja’s award-winning 2012 comic Hawkeye, a landmark 22-issue series that focused on both Clint and Kate over the course of its run.
Their partnership’s going to be hard to translate directly into the MCU, however. Jeremy Renner’s Clint is one of the most dramatically different characters between the comics and live-action movies. The MCU’s Hawkeye is almost entirely based on the Ultimate Marvel version of the character, where he’s a black-ops SHIELD agent working directly for Nick Fury. It’s bizarre to contemplate this version of Clint having a sidekick at all, which means the Hawkeye TV show, if Steinfeld is playing Kate, is starting from an almost blank slate.
Steinfeld’s breakthrough role was arguably that of Mattie Ross in the 2010 remake of the classic Western True Grit, opposite Jeff Bridges as Marshal Reuben Cogburn. Since then, she’s racked up an impressive number of film roles, including The Edge of Seventeen, Ender’s Game, and Bumblebee. Comic nerds may know her best as the voice of Gwen Stacy in 2018’s Into the Spider-Verse, a role she’s scheduled to reprise in that film’s not-yet-titled 2022 sequel. Steinfeld’s current project is the title role in Dickinson, an Apple TV original series about the early life of American poet Emily Dickinson, during her short-lived stint as a vampire hunter. (Not really.)
In other Kate Bishop news, she’s slated to join Marvel’s Avengers as a playable character, voiced by Ashly Burch, in the free Taking AIM DLC on December 8th.
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